How to Build a Monument to Nazi Evil Without Celebrating It

Berlin's new "Topography of Terror" exhibition center documents, doesn't honor, the Gestapo and the SS.

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 These were some of the most evil 11 acres in Germany, a place where Nazi leaders hatched plans to terrorize millions as casually as you might send an email. Heinrich Himmler had an office there. So did Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust." It was there that, in a matter of months, German democracy began to crumble.

Sixty-five years on, Berlin has transformed the Topography of...